I am-in general-a pretty happy person. I take after my mother-who used to announce every morning over her coffee: “I have a sunny disposition”. This as she took a long drag on the first cigarette of the day. I was like her. And life for me in the 50s and 60s was pretty hunky-dory until …
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I saw this film on Sunday and it’s special. Watch the trailer below. I was especially struck by one line from a letter van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo. The letter was breezy overall but then this: “Everyday feels like a week. For some reason everyday feels like a week”. Oh, how I know …
Researchers believe that prescribed medications play a key role in the treatment of mental illness. They can reduce symptoms and prevent relapses of a psychiatric disorder. I don’t remember when Prozac hit the market because I was a child in 1987. But from what I’ve read, it was a hallelujah moment; a turning point; a …